JULY 2014

The past six weeks have been busy for Sticking Up For Children in New Orleans.

Thanks to our contributors, we've been able to pass along assistance to our partner Beneficiaries in Haiti and New Orleans: the Foyer Espoir Pour les
Enfants (FEPE) in Port-au-Prince, the Youpi Youpi School in Cayes Jacmel, and the New Orleans Youth Sound Experience (NOYSE) and the Kuumba Institute at the Ashe' Cultural Arts Center.

 

 

 

 

NOYSE hosted a party on June 19 for its Spring 2014 graduates in sound-recording. Diplomas and refreshments were given out at the Lab along
St. Claude Avenue. Previously Matthew Shilling, founder and chief instructor at NOYSE and a fine saxophonist, employed the Spring 2014 class in love, on-site mixing for eight Thursday evening concerts at Louis Armstrong Park.

Here are Matthew and the graduates at the graduation-party. The graduates received T-shirts  ProMark drumsticks from the D'Addario Foundation one of Sticking Up For Children's sponsors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sticking Up For Children's suddenly invigorated Facebook page has a series of photos.
     https://www.facebook.com/stickingupforchildren
 

 

Matthew also led a workshop in in-studio recording with six of radio-station WWOZ's Summer interns between June 16 and 18,

Here are interviews with two of enthusiastic interns, done by Maryse Dejean and recorded and edited by our superb young videographer Aristide Phillips.

http://www.wwoz.org/blog/246216

Aristide is also the source of a video highlighting six pairs of the wondrously colorful and creative drumsticks-as-art that we received from the FEPE
orphanage and school in Port-au-Prince.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcynJYRNrWE
       
Matisse! Picasso! Roualt! Lucy Tejada!

The song accompanying these 'Beautiful Drumsticks' "Choucone", is by Martha Jean Claude of Haiti, a wonderful singer whom you can also catch with
Celia Cruz in Havana, circa 1952.

Earlier drumsticks-as-art were purchased by two long-time friends of Don Paul's from distance-running, Brock Hinzman and Tim Geraghty. Here's Brock with Robert Post's nicely adorned, aquatic sticks, signed by Cyril Neville.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Royal Southern Brotherhood released its album heartsoulblood on June 10 and continues in its touring, North America and Europe, to rising acclaim.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, this past month we recorded interviews recorded with our supporter Alfred Roberts, the magical percussionist who played integrally with Professor Longhair in the 1970s, and with principals at the thriving Kuumba Institute in New Orleans' Ashe' Cultural Arts Center.

 

We also have a Music & Arts Day coming up in partnership with Make Music NOLA, July 12, at the house of Collins and Sheila Phillips in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward.

 

Thanks to everyone who keeps Sticking Up For Children moving forward!